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I was thinking, and I remembered a couple of things that I meant to post yesterday, but forgot.The first thing was a question. For all of you with tattoos, has anybody ever experienced their tattoo fading due to stuff, such as sunshine and especially chlorine?? I really want to take up swimming, but I am concerned that it will fade or bleach my tattoo. I realize that you're not supposed to go swimming or anything while your tattoo is still healing, but what about afterwards? Does it harm in any way?
The second thing was that I am ECSTATIC that the Canadian geese have shown up in the neighbourhood. I love them, and they always make me happy when I see them. I'm worried that they're going to get hit by a car though....I shout out the window at them and wave and stuff...good times! If I had a digital camera, I would take a picture of them, but I'm sure you all know what Canadian geese look like. Fun!!!!
I think I was also going to mention about how my arms are all bruised from volleyball. Not cool. And then today I was trying to fix a bassoon reed, and I pulled on a wire and it snapped and in the backwards pull, cut my finger and almost my thumb. Also not cool. Especially since I had to play tonight and it's the finger used for half holing. I had to put a band-aid on it and amazing enough, it didn't seem to impair my playing. I need to figure out what I'm going to do about reeds though...the one I'm playing on now is okay, but I don't know how much longer it's going to last, and I wish I had something that sounds a little better.
Eric is sad because I was unsuccessful in my attempt to tape Smallville. I set up the VCR, but I've never recorded with this VCR so I didn't do it properly, and it didn't record. Sigh.
posted by Jo @ Thursday, September 29, 2005
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Who knew that playing the bassoon could be so dangerous to one's body????????
Didn't you order bassoon reeds before???? Surely one of the other bassoonists in your band could offer you some assistance with them!!!
Hope you have a good weekend. Not sure what we are doing. ETBA is sanctioning Gateway on Sunday morning so Bruce has to go in for that.
Love ya!!
Hey Jo, I think colours like red, yellow, blue for tattoos fade easily, but I haven't found that black does. I don't think swimming will really cause it to fade too much. If it does fade, which would be noticable after a year or many years of excessive sun and chlorine exposure :P, it doesn't take much to get a tattoo artist to add a little more ink for a touch-up (doesn't cost as much as the original tattoo price!). Tattoos fade over time regardless, as our skin is constantly regenerating :)
Yeah...I suppose that's always true, but I'm not convinced that I really want to get it touched up, as I remember how much it hurt to get it done in the first place!! I guess I survived once...I could survive it again!
Oh yes, and mom, I have ordered bassoon reeds before, and I am considering ordering them again, but reeds that other people have made are not always very good. The other bassoon players in my band are mediocre at best, although one of them is learning to make her own reeds. I might offer to buy a "Blank" from her, just to see how they play, because her reeds are well put together. Much better than I could do, that's for sure. I don't have the patience.....
I haven't noticed a bit of difference in my tattoo since it healed, except that it dulled a bit when the fine hairs grew back. Then again, mine's only black and I don't swim because my ear problems... My horrible sun brun from last month (which I still have marks from!) didn't hurt it, though.
I don't think it would be too bad to get it touched up, though. While I was getting mine done, the guy asked me if I could see why it would be considered addictive, and I totally could. Getting it touched up would be kinda like getting another one without having to justify it to my parents. ^_^
I don't think either of those things would make a big difference but maybe you could go to a shop and ask them or see if you can e-mail Matt from the Dragon FX website. Janita's right, it will fade anyway. Trust me, I've seen tatoos that have been around for 50 years......
Ryan says.... best episode ever!!!!
Jill says.... They're Canada Geese! Don't you like having a teacher for a sister?
I'll assume that Ryah is talking about Smallville....
I'm talking about calling my Geese whatever I want to. Besides, the Americans don't know whether they're Canada Geese or Canadian Geese. Hahahaha:)
Thanks for all the insight about Tattoos though. I think I'll go swimming...probably a lot!
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